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Excellent article! I totally relate since I worked in for ad agencies from the late eighties until 2015. You are so right about the soul sucking nature of the ad biz. I worked on both sides of that fence in the print world and the digital and about the only thing I miss is the money, but even then the trade offs to get the money are too high, like working damn 18 hour days or longer.

I also relate to your experience at trade conferences. The worst for me though was attending any Google AdWords/ad seminars. I felt like I was the only one in the room who could recognize the absolute hamster wheel and blatant ad fraud of it all.

I'm with you. Good riddance to it all.

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I remember a Tired/Wired from back then:

Tired: Banner ads on web sites

Wired: TV ads *for* web sites

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